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    Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American inventor and painter. After having established his reputation as a portrait painter, in his middle age Morse contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs.

  3. Apr 23, 2024 · Samuel F.B. Morse, American painter, philanthropist, and inventor who developed an electric telegraph (1832–35). In 1838 he and his friend Alfred Vail developed the system of dots and dashes later known as the Morse Code. In 1844 he sent the first message over the first telegraph line in the United States.

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  4. Nov 9, 2009 · While scientists and inventors across the world began experimenting with batteries and the principles of electromagnetism to develop some kind of communication system, the credit for inventing...

  5. Alexander Graham Bell (/ ˈ ɡ r eɪ. ə m /, born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born Canadian-American inventor, scientist and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. He also co-founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1885. [additional citation(s) needed]

  6. Sep 11, 2019 · Samuel F.B. Morse was an accomplished painter before he invented the telegraph and changed the way the world communicated. By Greg Timmons Updated: Sep 11, 2019 Getty Images

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    Morse Code. Computing and Telecommunications. Samuel Finley Breese Morse, inventor of several improvements to the telegraph, was born in Charlestown, Mass. on April 27, 1791. As a student at Yale College, Morse became interested in both painting and in the developing subject of electricity.

  8. Apr 27, 2009 · Updated on August 20, 2019. Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791–April 2, 1872) is famous as the inventor of the telegraph and Morse Code, but what he really wanted to do was paint.

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